Yoga Versus Health Education for the Treatment of Persistent Fatigue in Patients With Post COVID-19 Syndrome
- Conditions
- Post-COVID-19 SyndromeFatigue Post Viral
- Interventions
- Behavioral: Yoga TherapyBehavioral: Health Education
- Registration Number
- NCT05890599
- Lead Sponsor
- University Hospital Tuebingen
- Brief Summary
Evaluation of the short- and medium-term effect of a yoga intervention in addition to routine care compared to health education in addition to routine care on fatigue in patients with post covid syndrome.
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- RECRUITING
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 100
- Confirmed COVID-19 diagnosis
- Follow-up symptoms of ≥ 12 weeks
- Persistent fatigue (scores ≥4 on the binomial Chalder Fatigue Scale).
- Self-assessment that fatigue was a consequence of COVID-19 disease
- Age 18-65 years
- Chronic medical conditions or regular use of medications associated with fatigue
- Indication of health cause of fatigue other than post-COVID.
- Indication of other factors as the main cause of fatigue
- Physical limitations that do not allow participation in the yoga intervention
- Pregnancy, breastfeeding
- Concurrent participation in other clinical trials
- Current yoga practice
Study & Design
- Study Type
- INTERVENTIONAL
- Study Design
- PARALLEL
- Arm && Interventions
Group Intervention Description Yoga Therapy Yoga Therapy 12 week yoga program, one weekly session of 90 minutes each, plus 2 times weekly 30 minutes of self practice. Health Education Health Education 12 week health education program, one weekly session of 90 minutes each, plus 2 times weekly 30 minutes of self practice.
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Fatigue 12 weeks The chalder fatigue scale is used to assess the severity of fatigue within the last 4 weeks. It contains 11 questions in a four-step answer format (0-4), 7 of which refer to the degree of physical fatigue and 4 to the degree of mental fatigue. In its binomial evaluation (range 0-11) it can be used with a cut-off of (≥ 4) to divide patients into those with and those without fatigue.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Fatigue 24 weeks Chalder Fatigue Scale
Health related quality of life SF-12 24 weeks Short Form 12 Health Survey Questionnaire, The SF-12 represents the most commonly used instrument in clinical trials to assess generic quality of life. The questionnaire captures 8 different subscales, which are combined into a physical and a psychological summated scale.
Psychological symptoms 24 weeks The Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale asks 14 questions, of which 7 are about anxiety and 7 about depression in patients with physical illnesses and physical complaints. More precisely, it measures the self-assessed severity of patients' anxious and depressive symptoms in relation to the past week.
Adverse events 24 weeks Adverse events and serious adverse events are documented. Adverse events include any adverse symptoms, illnesses, disorders, or accidents that occur during the course of the study. Serious adverse events include events occurring during the course of the study that are immediately life-threatening and/or result in serious health problems (specifically, requiring unanticipated hospitalization or prolongation of hospitalization, or resulting in serious disability or incapacitation). The severity as well as the possible causal relationship with the intervention will be assessed by the study physician.
D-dimer 24 weeks D-dimer, as a by-product of the blood clotting and break-down process that can be measured via analysis of a blood sample
Movement tracking 24 weeks General tracking of patients' movement habits via activity monitor
Post-exertional malaise 24 weeks Post-exertional malaise (PEM) is a delayed worsening of symptoms that occurs after minimal physical or mental activity. The DePaul-Symptom Questionaire (DSQ) is used to asses PEM.
Lactate dehydrogenase 24 weeks Lactate dehydrogenase (LDH), measuring the amount of LDH in the blood. Lactate dehydrogenase is an enzyme that the body uses during the process of turning sugar into energy for your cells to use.
Grip strength 24 weeks Repeated measurement of hand strength can help detect physical decline and inflammatory processes Hand strength measurement can be an invaluable tool for monitoring physical performance decline.
Body awareness 24 weeks The BAQ is an 18-item scale designed to assess self-reported attentiveness to normal nonemotive body processes, specifically, sensitivity to body cycles and rhythms, ability to detect small changes in normal functioning, and ability to anticipate bodily reactions. Body awareness will be used in mediation analyses of treatment effects.
Heart rate variability 24 weeks HRV is simply a measure of the variation in time between each heartbeat. This variation is controlled by a primitive part of the nervous system called the autonomic nervous system (ANS). It works behind the scenes, automatically regulating our heart rate, blood pressure, breathing, and digestion among other key tasks.
C-reactive proteine 24 weeks CRP as marker of pro-inflammatory cytokine activity, from blood samples.
Interleukine-6 24 weeks IL-6, as marker of pro-inflammatory cytokine activity, from blood samples.
Health related quality of life EQ-5D-5L 24 weeks The EQ-5D-5L is a self-assessed, health related, quality of life questionnaire. The scale measures quality of life on a 5-component scale including mobility, self-care, usual activities, pain/discomfort, and anxiety/depression. In this study, the EQ-5D-5L is used for cost-effectiveness analysis, together with healthcare-related costs.
Sleep quality 24 weeks The Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) assesses the quality of sleep over the past 4 weeks using 24 questions, 17 for self-assessment and 7 for external assessment. It is used clinically to monitor patients with sleep disorders and to screen for sleep disorders in epidemiological studies.
Stress 24 weeks The current stress perception of the patients is assessed by means of the Perceived Stress Scale (PSS-10). This measures the current subjective perceived stress of the patients on the basis of 10 items.
Self-Efficacy 24 weeks The Arthritis Self-Efficacy Scale (ASES) was originally developed in 1989 as part of the Stanford Arthritis Self-Management Study to assess self-efficacy in arthritis patients and has since been used to assess it in many disease conditions. A short version (ASES-8/ASES-D) has been validated. This version surveys in scale level 1-10 the perceived ability to deal with occurring symptoms such as: Pain or fatigue. Self-efficacy will be used in mediation analyses of treatment effects.
Leukocytes and lymphocytes 24 weeks Leukocytes and lymphocytes, from blood samples.
Trial Locations
- Locations (1)
Bosch-Health-Campus
🇩🇪Stuttgart, Germany